Geneva to offer key official documents in English

The city of Geneva has decided to provide key administrative documents and public information in English, Portuguese, Spanish, Albanian and Arabic to help new residents integrate. Previously, many of these documents had been available only in French. Read more on Swissinfo.ch...>>>

Le baromètre linguistique de Bruxelles enfin disponible en français

Just published : "Le multilinguisme urbain. Le cas de Bruxelles", by Rudi Janssens (Editions Racine, Brussels, 2014, 154p.). This is an important event for the spreading of knowledge among Brusselers about their own linguistic situation. In 2001, 2006 and 2011, a team headed by VUB researcher Rudi Janssens collected a large amount of data from a representative sample of 2500 adult...

Taal in de Rand : new study on languages in the Flemish communes that surround Brussels

Bron: Marnixplan.org
Rudi Janssens (VUB) is the author of the Brussels’ Taalbarometer studies, the main source of information about the linguistic situation in Brussels. In his new study (Taal en identiteit in de Rand, VUB Press, 2014, 123p.), he investigates the linguistic situation in what the Flemish government defined as the "Vlaamse Rand". This is an area that completely surrounds...

Brussels doctors speak 29 languages

A new website enables to identify and locate doctors who can speak your language, at least if it is one of the 29 they speak. These include Urdu, Vietnamese and Kurdish. After French, English and Dutch, the languages most widely spoken by Brussels doctors are Spanish, German and Greek. Only 14 out of nearly 2000 speak Brussels’ second native language : Arabic.